Improvement in gates



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. To enable those skilled in the art UNITED AiS* I ATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAAQ-og 'BENNETr,* OE .oLINrON, ILLINOIS.

l MPROVEMENT' IN GATES.

specification running ppn of Letters-.Patent Noi. 95841, Adated January is, 1570; @meat/fed 4 January 3, 1870.

vBe it known that I-, ISAAC. C.r BENNETT, of

Clinton, Qin the county of DeWitt, and inthe ters of reference marked thereon.

vIheiignrerepresents'a' perspective view. of the gate.4

f LMy invention relates tol-aniinp'roveinent in f gates; 'and it consists in placing the same .on "bGUWPQQlLLlO- llble .restar-and. Opening andclosin'g 't'. by means of acrank y and sheave, around rt elatter of which 'a'rope enchain, extendingjfroni one end-of the gate to'l the other, 'passes Once, as hereinafter more fully explained.- to make and use my invention, I will proceed to de-A scribe itsconstruction and Operation.

A in the drawings represents the bed or sill Onwhich thcposts are mounted. For the sake of economy vthis sill may be dispensed` posts be iirmly embedded in the with and the earth.I v

B, B', and 132 represent the posts, which are equidistant from each other. B is asingle post, and is On that side which faces the others provided with a notch, which receives theend of one of' the bars of the gate when closed,

.to give it stability. It also hasl a'staple on the Outsidel to'receive the hook on the gate when the saine is closed.v B and B2 are double postst between the two 'nprights of which, forming such double posts, suiicient space is left for the bars of the gateto slidein. Above the nppermost'of the bars'theuprights are united.

C `represents the gate proper, the forni Of which may be such as shown in the figure of the drawings; It slides between the uprights forming the double posts, anditslength is equal `tO the distance between',A the Outer sides of posts:

B and B2. When c10sed, One of thestiles of the gate abntsy against the inner side lof post B, its protruding .bar extending into the. notch ,in-saine, while its other stileabuts against the Outer side Of posiB.` When opened,the

`rst-mentitnled stile abuts against ,thel middle D represents a. rope Or chain, one .end Ofl whichis fastened to one of the stiles, then passed along ina horizontal direction and passed-Once around a s heave, which is hung lat the proper height ,between the uprights of 'the centIOublefpost, and then continued to the other stile and fastened' thereto.

tween ythe uprights of the center post, between two barsof the gate. e. Its journals`extend tO the under side of that bar of thegateinnnediately above it.

I do not claim, broadly, Operating the gate by means of thecord and pulley; but

The double posts B B2, with pulley E, Operating between-the posts B and between two bars of the gate, in combinationwith the line D, pulleys F, crank ce', and the gate.

The above specilieation signed by me .this

5th day of May, 1869. ISAAC C. BENNETT.

`Witnesses:

SOLOMON F. LEWIS,

CHARLES H. BENNETT.

1E represents the sheave, which is hung be 

